“The disciplinary procedures of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons did not give rise to any appearance of bias so as to breach a practitioner’s right to a fair trial under Article 6.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 18th January 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“One of Britain’s most senior appeal court judges has been publicly reprimanded for receiving a driving ban and failing to inform judicial authorities that he was facing traffic offences.”
The Guardian, 13th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Hundreds of poor teachers are likely to be allowed to remain in the classroom under Government plans to scrap the profession’s official regulator, it is feared.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th January 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A policewoman who searched the force computer to look through confidential files on behalf of her boyfriend has been found guilty of misconduct.”
BBC News, 13th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Rise in misconduct cases prompts regulator to publish advice on professional boundaries for staff.”
The Guardian, 21st November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The General Dental Council was under no obligation to obtain an order of the court for permission to use and disclose dental records of patients for the purposes of investigating allegations of professional misconduct against a registered dentist even where the patients in question objected to the disclosure or did not consent to it.”
WLR Daily, 16th November 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“MPs could be punished for indiscretions in their private lives if their actions embarrass Parliament, under a new code of conduct.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Chairman of the Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, has told Bar leaders from around the world that an independent judiciary is the most important element in attracting clients to any jurisdiction.”
The Bar Council, 2nd November 2011
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
“What is Lord Justice Leveson up to? The judge heading the phone-hacking inquiry is currently planning a series of public seminars on the relationship between the press and the public. Is he right to seek evidence about internal rules in such august institutions as the Guardian and the BBC? Or should he confine himself, as some critics are saying, to investigating the misbehaviour of the tabloid press and the police?”
The Guardian, 21st September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A primary schoolteacher has been banned from working for allowing children to hug him.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Four Leicestershire police officers have been cleared of misconduct after a woman killed herself and her daughter blaming repeated harassment.”
BBC News, 16th September 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A teacher has been banned from the classroom after hiding a string of convictions – including biting a police officer.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An urgent review has been ordered into the conduct of police in West Yorkshire who took a murder trial witness to a brothel and allowed him to take drugs.”
BBC News, 8th September 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Private security officers employed to remove detainees from the UK showed ‘a shamefully unprofessional and derogatory attitude’, using unnecessary force and racist language, according to the chief inspector of prisons.”
The Guardian, 6th September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A male teacher who moonlighted as a stripper and appeared in pornographic films is free to continue teaching despite being found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A former paramedic is seeking compensation and an investigation by the General Medical Council (GMC) after part of his brain was removed in error by an NHS surgeon.”
The Guardian, 23rd August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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